"That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'No' in any of them."

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"Famous actress bragging about her husband: Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now' Dorothy Parker: Don't Worry--he'll come back in style'"

"If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead."

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania."

"'Coolidge is dead' 'How could they tell?"

"Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity."

"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it."

"The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."

"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."